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04123aam a2200409 i 4500 001 985F2B28E9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170203020341 008 160218s2016 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016004650 020 $a 1509500332 020 $a 9781509500338 020 $a 1509500340 020 $a 9781509500345 035 $a (OCoLC)940342167 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCF $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d NDD $d OCLCO $d VP@ $d ERASA $d YUS $d CSAIL $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ger 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PT147 K4713 2016 100 1 $a Kermani, Navid, $d 1967- $e author. 240 10 $a Zwischen Koran und Kafka. $l English 245 10 $a Between Quran and Kafka : $b west-eastern affinities / $c Navid Kermani ; translated by Tony Crawford. 264 1 $a Cambridge, UK ; $b Polity Press, $c [2016]. 300 $a xv, 303 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 546 $a Translated from German. 520 8 $a What connects Shiite passion plays with Brecht's drama? Which of Goethe's poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabi's theology of sighs explain the plays of Heinrich von Kleist? And why did the Persian author Sadeq Hedayat identify with the Prague Jew Franz Kafka? One who knows himself and others will here too understand: Orient and Occident are no longer separable: in this new book, the critically acclaimed author and scholar Navid Kermani takes Goethe at his word. He reads the Quran as a poetic text, opens Eastern literature to Western readers, unveils the mystical dimension in the works of Goethe and Kleist, and deciphers the political implications of theatre, from Shakespeare to Lessing to Brecht. Drawing striking comparisons between a diverse range of literary traditions and cultures, Kermani argues for a literary cosmopolitanism that is opposed to all those who would play religions and cultures against one another, isolating them by force from one another. Between Quran and Kafka concludes with Kermani's speech on receiving Germany s highest literary prize, an impassioned plea for greater fraternity when confronted with the tyranny and terrorism of Islamic State. 0Kermani's personal assimilation of the classics gives his work that topical urgency that distinguishes universal literature when it speaks to our most intimate feelings. For of course love too lies between Quran and Kafka. 505 00 $g 16. $t About the Text. $t The Quran and Poetry -- $g 2. $t Revolt against God -- $t Attar and Suffering -- $g 3. $t World without God -- $t Shakespeare and Man -- $g 4. $t Heroic Weakness -- $t Lessing and Terror -- $g 5. $t God Breathing -- $t Goethe and Religion -- $g 6. $t Filth of My Soul -- $t Kleist and Love -- $g 7. $t The Truth of Theatre -- $t The Shiite Passion Play and Alienation -- $g 8. $t Liberate Bayreuth! -- $t Wagner and Empathy -- $g 9. $t Swimming in the Afternoon -- $t Kafka and Germany -- $g 10. $t The Duty of Literature -- $t Hedayat and Kafka -- $g 11. $t Towards Europe -- $t Zweig and the Borders -- $g 12. $t In Defence of the Glass Bead Game -- $t Hesse and Decadence -- $g 13. $t The Violence of Compassion -- $t Arendt and Revolution -- $g 14. $t Tilting at Windmills -- $t Mosebach and the Novel -- $g 15. $t One God, One Wife, One Cheese -- $t Golshiri and Friendship -- $g 16. $t Sing the Quran Singingly -- $t Neuwirth and Literalist Piety -- $t Appendix -- $t On the Sixty-Fifth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the German Constitution -- $t Speech to the Bundestag, Berlin, 23 May 2014 -- $t On Receiving the Peace Prize of the German Publishers' Association -- $t Speech in St Paul's Church, Frankfurt am Main, October 2015 -- $t About the Text. 650 0 $a German literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Religion and literature. 650 0 $a East and West. 700 1 $a Crawford, Tony, $e translator. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Kermani, Navid, 1967- author. $t Between Quran and Kafka. $d Cambridge, UK: Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2016 $z 9781509500369 $w (DLC) 2016008548 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240717030402.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=985F2B28E9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search